Fernanda Dahlstrom

“What a wonderfully complex thing! this simple seeming unity—the self!”
― H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes

“What was this place?—this place that to his senses seemed subtly quivering like a thing alive?”
― H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes

“The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited. Mass imprisonment generates profits as it devours social wealth, and thus it tends to reproduce the very conditions that lead people to prison. There are thus real and often quite complicated connections between the deindustrialization of the economy—a process that reached its peak during the 1980s—and the rise of mass imprisonment, which also began to spiral during the Reagan-Bush era. However, the demand for more prisons was represented to the public in simplistic terms. More prisons were needed because there was more crime. Yet many scholars have demonstrated that by the time the prison construction boom began, official crime statistics were already falling.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

“MEASURED IN THE BLOOD spilt in leadership challenges or the bile spewed daily in parliament, the developed world’s most stable economy has produced the most volatile and petty politics.”
― Nick Bryant, The Rise and Fall of Australia: How a great nation lost its way